The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.
The island briefly fell under the protection of the United States, which was interested in its critical weather stations, after Germany occupied Denmark during World War II. President Harry Truman ...
The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere, and it's melting rapidly. Climate change is causing more intense atmospheric rivers, which can deliver intense ...
That was a less-than-fitting name, since around 80 percent of its more than two million-square-kilometre (772,204 square-mile) surface is covered by ice ... Germany, Greenland came under US ...
Alamy In Greenland, the Frogmen train to operate in frigid waters where survival time can be measured in minutes. They conduct stealth insertions under the ice, rehearse amphibious landings on ...
The Inuit of Greenland have 80 ... to chip off the pukak (layer of ice). I’ve spent the morning skittering around the streets of Greenland’s third-largest city (population 4,670) — a place ...
On a boat, surrounded by snow-covered mountains and icebergs in shades of blue, Qooqu Berthelsen points to the breaking sea ...
It should not be forgotten that, for example, during the Cold War, the United States had military bases in Greenland, which were located under the ice sheet Radioactive waste is still buried there, ...
When President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress last week, people in Greenland listened very closely. Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, is holding a general ...
Most of Greenland's surface is covered by ice, with just 20 per cent of its landmass ... when Denmark was occupied by Germany, Greenland came under US protection and was returned to Denmark ...
The truth behind a secret US military base that was built into a glacier in Greenland in the 1960s has ... and there was a plan to bury them under ice, the outlet said. The plan was to be ...